From now on, it is possible to login to a PC in [[Terminal rooms |the computer labs, the library and study landscape]] when another user has locked the PC. The hope is that this contributes somewhat to reducing the shortage of workplaces. When these PCs were running Windows7, after 15 minutes of inactivity the logged-in user could be logged out without restarting the PC, but this software no longer works with Windows10. To login as another user, click on "Switch User" in the the bottom left corner of the lock screen.

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From now on, it is possible to login to a PC in [[Terminalkamers|the computer labs, the library and study landscape]] when another user has locked the PC. The hope is that this contributes somewhat to reducing the shortage of workplaces. When these PCs were running Windows7, after 15 minutes of inactivity the logged-in user could be logged out without restarting the PC, but this software no longer works with Windows10. To login as another user, click on "Switch User" in the the bottom left corner of the lock screen.

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Computer labs: login to locked pc

From now on, it is possible to login to a PC in the computer labs, the library and study landscape when another user has locked the PC. The hope is that this contributes somewhat to reducing the shortage of workplaces. When these PCs were running Windows7, after 15 minutes of inactivity the logged-in user could be logged out without restarting the PC, but this software no longer works with Windows10. To login as another user, click on "Switch User" in the the bottom left corner of the lock screen.

Intel compilers new version

C&CZ has bought together with TCM and Theoretical Chemistry two licenses for the concurrent use of the most recent version of the Intel Parallel Studio XE for Linux. This has been installed in /vol/opt/intelcompilers and is available on a.o. clusternodes en loginservers. The old (2014) version can also be found there. To set the environment variables correctly, BASH-users must first run:

New prices MS Visio and Project

As of January, 2016, using Microsoft Visio Pro and Microsoft Project has to be paid per pc per year. Most other Microsoft products for which RU has licenses, can be used freely on RU pcs. As of January 2019, prices for Viso and Project have changed considerably, see below. Please contact C&CZ if you use or want to start using Visio or Project.

Temporarily free Stata licence on RU pc's

Together with Radboudumc, Radboud University has signed a campus license for Stata. Stata is statistical software that is in use at a number of faculties - especially at FSW and FM. The costs for the use of Stata have been relatively high up to now. Because now there is a campus license, it has become much cheaper for new users: until November 2019 it can be used free of charge on pc's owned by Radboud University. After that it will cost a maximum of € 150 per user per year, depending on the number of users.

C&CZ transfers telephony management to ISC

With the move to IPT, telephony has become a network application. Telephony management has become much less time consuming. Therefore, as of January 1, 2019, C&CZ will transfer the management of FNWI telephony to the RU central telephony management at the ISC. For networking at FNWI, you can still contact C&CZ.

Monday evening November 26, there will be maintenance on central RU network equipment: some routers will get a software upgrade. From 22:00 hours, parts of the RU network and central RU-services will not be available. Within Huygens and other FNWI buildings the internet and wireless network will not be available from 23:30-00:30 hours. Please think which processes depend on connectivity and prepare for this possible outage if necessary. Future maintenance windows can be seen on the ISC website.

Endnote X9 available

Endnote version X9 is available for MS-Windows and Mac OS X. It can be found on the install network disk. The license permits use by employees and students, also at home. Within short notice it will also be available in the Software Center of the C&CZ managed pc with Windows 10.

Research data: storage and backup on C&CZ fileservers

With the lower prices for network discs and backup, several departments have started the move from locally managed discs to backupped fileservers of C&CZ. In general this has big advantages for reliability, backup and access rights that can be mananaged by the department itself. Biggest disadvantage is that network discs that have to be backed up, have to be divided in projects or other chunks of max. ca. 400 GB. Departments interested in moving their data to C&CZ fileservers should contact postmaster. The current setup is based on individual NAS-fileservers, C&CZ is investigating a new setup based on Ceph.

Departmental computers to Windows10

New departmental computers can be installed with Windows10 by C&CZ. Also existing pc's can get an upgrade from Windows7 to Windows10. You can make an appointment for this with the C&CZ helpdesk. After that, users can install software themselves with the catalogue of the Software Center. N.B.: the Outlook2016 installed with Windows10 doesn't work well with the Science IMAP mailserver. Alternatives: mailclients like Roundcube and Thunderbird or a different mailserver like the RU Exchange mail and calendar service.

MS Office 2019 instructions on Install network share

Instructions to install the most recent version of Microsoft Office, 2019, are available on the Install network share. There is a new installation method, with the Office Deployment Tool. The MAK license code is known to the C&CZ helpdesk. They can share the screen of your PC and then enter the code. They only do that if the PC is owned by FNWI. For privately owned computers you can order this software relatively cheap at Surfspot.

Monday evening October 1, there will be maintenance on central RU network equipment: all routers get a software upgrade. From 22:00 hours, parts of the RU network will not be available, a.o. wireless and Internet access. The network in Huygens and other FNWI buildings will not be available from 01:00-02:00 hours. Also C&CZ services will be disrupted. Please think which processes depend on connectivity to RU central services and prepare for this possible outage if necessary. Future maintenance windows can be seen on the ISC website.

Matlab R2018b available

The latest version of Matlab, R2018b, is available for departments that have licenses. The software and license codes can be obtained through a mail to postmaster for those entitled to it. The software can also be found on the install-disc. All C&CZ-managed Linux machines will soon have this version installed, an older version (/opt/matlab-R2018a/bin/matlab) is still available temporarily. The C&CZ-managed Windows machines will not receive a new version during the semester to prevent problems with version dependencies in current lectures.

Eduroam CAT to setup Eduroam

The ISC made setting up the wireless network simpler and safer by switching to Eduroam CAT. Employees and students of Radboud University are offered an installer tailored to the RU campus network. Eduroam CAT currently supports various versions of Windows, MacOS, OS X, Linux, Chrome OS, Android and a generic EAP configuration. In order to use Eduroam CAT, Internet connectivity is necessary. On campus, this might be the network Eduroam-config, but then one must use the RU-specific instructions

Windows10, Software Center and computer lab pcs

During the summer break all pc's in the computer labs got an upgrade from Windows7 to Windows10. The 4 year old pcs in TK625/HG00.625 and HG00.201/studylandscape/library have been replaced. In TK053/HG02.053 and HG00.201/studylandscape pcs have been added. With the Software Center, users can install software from the catalog. All remarks and questions are welcome.

Matlab R2018a Update 4 available

The latest update (4) for the most recent version of Matlab, R2018a, is available for departments that have licenses. The software and license codes can be obtained through a mail to postmaster for those entitled to it. The software can also be found on the install-disc. All C&CZ-managed Linux machines will soon have this version installed, an older version (/opt/matlab-R2017b/bin/matlab) is still available temporarily. The C&CZ-managed Windows machines will not receive a new version during the semester to prevent problems with version dependencies in current lectures.

New version of Mailman maillist software

The Mailman maillist software has had een upgrade to a new version and has been moved to a new server. Because of subscription spam, we had to temporarily disable subscription. The new version uses reCAPTCHA as countermeasure for subscription spam. Therefore we have enabled web-subscription again.

Lower prices for network discs and backup

After the FNWI data/backup meeting and because of the purchase of a new storage server, C&CZ determined new prices for network discs and for backup. The new prices are ca. 2.5 times lower than the old ones, that were set 4 years ago.

Slides of storage/backup meeting within FNWI

June 28, C&CZ held a meeting on a.o. current status and future of storage and backup within FNWI, a.o. because C&CZ will have to renew the datacenter network and the storage and backup solutions. For this meeting, the faculty data stewards and others were invited. The slides of the presentation (English only) are available.

Wednesday evening July 4, there will be maintenance on central RU network equipment. From 22:00 hours, central RU applications and network will not be available most of the time. For telephones no disturbance is expected. For the C&CZ services there is a possibility of disruptions: no Internet connection for some time. Please think which processes depend on connectivity to RU central services and prepare for this possible outage if necessary. Future maintenance windows can be seen on the ISC website.

National Instruments LabVIEW Spring 2018 on Install network share

To make it easier to install NI LabVIEW for departments that participate in the license, the newly arrived "Spring 2018" version has been copied to the Install network share. Install media can also be borrowed. License codes can be obtained from C&CZ helpdesk or postmaster.

Digital testing/assessment with cloud application streaming

Since February 2015, digital tests/assessments can be held within the Faculty of Science.
Last week, more than 300 students Computing Science were successfully graded in a large scale digital test/assessment with use of the Netbeans integrated development environment. This IDE was streamed as a Windows application from cloud supplier Amazon. The application ran in a tab of the RU Kiosk App and was delivered through Amazon Appstream 2.0 on Chromebooks. The Chromebooks were purchased last year by the university to make large scale digital testing/assessment possible.

New version Filemaker Pro, also Advanced and Server, on Install network share

A new versions of Filemaker Pro, Filemaker Pro Advanced and of Filemaker Server, 17, for Windows (32- and 64-bit) and Mac is available on the Install network share. The license permits the use on university computers. License codes can be obtained from C&CZ helpdesk or postmaster. For home PCs, the software is available through Surfspot.

Maple new version: Maple2018

The latest version of Maple, Maple2018, can be found on the Install network share and has been installed on C&CZ managed Linux computers. License codes can be requested from C&CZ helpdesk or postmaster by departments that take part in the license.

Webmail: Roundcube and Exchange alternative for small screens: Rainloop

For small screens of smartphones, the webmail of Roundcube is not very well suited. That is why there is an alternative now: Rainloop. You can set a "threaded view" in Rainloop, which is also handy for small screens. The Science addressbook is available in Rainloop. One can also use Rainloop for the RU Exchange mail. But Roundcube has many other advantages over Rainloop: manage folders shared with other users, shared labels and the administration of Sieve filters and out-of-office messages. For more information see our mail page.

New version of OriginLabPro (2018b, 9.5)

A new version (2018b, 9.5) of OriginLabPro, software for scientific graphing and data analysis, can be found on the Install-disk. See the website of OriginLab for all info on the new version.The license server supports this new version. Departments that take part in the license can request installation and license info from C&CZ, also for standalone use. Installation on C&CZ managed PCs still is being planned. Departments that want to start using OriginLab should contact C&CZ.

Test of Ubuntu 18.04 on Linux login server lilo6

As a test of the new version of Ubuntu, 18.04 LTS, we have installed a new login server lilo6.science.ru.nl. In a few months it will replace the five year old login server lilo4. The name lilo, that always points to the newest/fastest login server, will then be moved from the two year old lilo5 to the new lilo6. The new lilo6 is a Dell PowerEdge R440 with 2 Xeon Silver 4110 CPU @2.10GHz 8-core processors and 64GB RAM. Because we enabled hyper-threading, it is showing 32 processors.
For users who want to check the identity of this new server before supplying their Science-password to the new server, see the section about our loginservers.
Please report all problems with this new version of Ubuntu Linux.

C&CZ day out: Tuesday May 29

Test Windows10 on info pcs central street

During the summer break all pc's in the computer labs will get an upgrade from Windows7 to Windows10. This can now be tested on the 4 info column pcs in the central street near the Library of Science (HG00.011). All remarks and questions are welcome. N.B.1: the Windows7 roaming profile has not been transfered, every user gets a clean profile. N.B.2: because the info column pcs are used less and less, they will be removed during the summer break.

Intel compiler: old version (2011) will be removed

In 2014 C&CZ bought two licences for concurrent use of the 2014 version of the Intel Cluster Studio for Linux which can be found in /vol/opt/intelcompilers. Therefore the old (2011) version will be reoved on May 1, 2018, after which the old license server can be removed.

EveryOnePrint: Peage printing through app, web upload or mail

Recently the ISC made EveryOnePrint available. With this, you can print from smartphone, tablet and every Internet-device to Peage, through web upload, app or mail. Unluckily enough, the mail option was chosen to work only with @ru.nl mail addresses, not with @science.ru.nl or other addresses.

New version of Mathematica (11.3.0)

A new version of Mathematica (11.3.0) has been installed on all C&CZ managed Linux systems, older versions can still be found in /vol/mathematica. The installation files for Windows and Linux can be found on the Install-disk, also for older versions of Mathematica. Departments that take part in the license can request installation and license info from C&CZ.

For those who forward all Science mail to an RU Exchange address (@ru.nl, @student.ru.nl, @fnwi.ru.nl or @donders.ru.nl), the Science LDAP address book from now on lists that forward address instead of the Science mail address.
The advantage of using this Science LDAP address book is that you can easily find addresses of FNWI employees and students, without having to choose from all RU namesakes.

Matlab R2018a available

The latest version of Matlab, R2018a, is available for departments that have licenses. The software and license codes can be obtained through a mail to postmaster for those entitled to it. The software can also be found on the install-disc. All C&CZ-managed Linux machines will soon have this version installed, an older version (/opt/matlab-R2017b/bin/matlab) is still available temporarily. The C&CZ-managed Windows machines will not receive a new version during the semester to prevent problems with version dependencies in current lectures.

Mattermost team communication platform available

As of March 2nd, the team communication platform Mattermost is available for anyone with a Science-login. Mattermost is an open source alternative to the proprietary Slack messaging service. Mattermost teams can setup integrations with GitLab projects and other (custom) services. Visit Mattermost at
https://mattermost.science.ru.nl.

Safely dispose of old hardware

At the Logistics Center of the housing department (IHZ) there is a locked room in which old hardware can be safely disposed. This is important with data carriers in order to prevent data leaks. Please do not put old hardware containing data in a container that can be searched by a passerby.

Compute clusters move to Ubuntu 16.04

C&CZ installed a new head node for the cn-cluster with Ubuntu 16.04 and a new version of SLURM. This makes it possible to upgrade all cn-clusternodes to these versions. Other clusters (coma, neuroinf, mlp) had this upgrade already.
The C&CZ-managed cn compute cluster consists of 60 nodes with 1560 cores and 8 TB RAM. The Astrophysics coma cluster, with 920 cores, 600 TB fileserver storage, GPU's and fast Infiniband interconnect is a separate cluster. For more info, see the cn compute cluster page.

Old Sopho telephone exchange switched off

After more than 30 years of loyal service, the old Philips Sopho S2500 telephone exchange of the SKU (RU and Radboudumc) has been switched off and removed. This 'first digital telephone exchange' was commissioned by FNWI in August 1987, as a pilot project of PTT, Philips and the RU (then KUN). Aad Hulsbosch of C&CZ was one of the driving forces during commissioning. In 1991, the Sopho switch was expanded for the entire SKU, to approximately 15,000 connections. The telephone functionality on the SKU has recently been completely taken over by an IP telephone exchange of Mitel Mitel and the Vodafone Wireless Office wireless telephony.

RU Network maintenance: Monday evening February 26 22:00-03:00

Monday evening February 26, there will be maintenance on central RU network equipment. Between 22:00-03:00 central RU applications like new Eduroam, Blackboard, Osiris, BASS, RU VPN and the RU filesystem will not be available most of the time. For telephones and the C&CZ services we expect no disruption. Please think which processes depend on connectivity to RU central services and prepare for this outage if necessary. Future maintenance windows can be seen on the ISC website.

C&CZ away day: Tuesday January 23

F-Secure security software now free for RU students

From now on students of Radboud University may download F-Secure SAFE free of charge throughout the year, for their pc/laptop/smartphone/tablet/iMac/Macbook.
For more info, visit the SURFspot download page.

HP laptop battery recall program

HP announced a recall program for laptop batteries that may overheat and pose a fire hazard. The batteries were sold in the period between December 2015 and December 2017. If you bought an HP laptop or battery in that period, it is wise to [check whether the battery should be replaced.

New versions of SPSS and Amos on Install network share

More recent versions of IBM SPSS (23 to 25) and Amos (23 and 24) are available on the Install network share. SPSS for MS-Windows and Mac OS X, Amos only for Windows. The license permits use on university computers and also home use by RU employees and students. License codes can be requested from C&CZ helpdesk or postmaster. One can also order the DVD's on Surfspot.

New version of OriginPro (2018)

A new version (2018) of OriginLab, software for scientific graphing and data analysis, can be found on the Install-disk. The license server supports this version. Departments that take part in the license can request installation and license info from C&CZ, also for standalone use. Installation on C&CZ managed PCs still is being planned. Departments that want to start using OriginLab should contact C&CZ.

Linux printing to Peage now simple

Initially as a test, there is now a much simpler alternative to the SMB printing from Linux. A printer "Peage" now is available on the Linux workstations and servers managed by C&CZ. The C&CZ print server translates the Science username to the U- or S-number and sends the print job onwards to a RU payprint server. Command line printing with the command lpr is also possible (lpoptions -pPeage -o SelectColor=Color to make color prints by default).

Network maintenance at Science Faculty: upgrade router

Monday evening November 27, there will be maintenance on RU network equipment. Between ca. 23:30-02:00 new firmware will be loaded into the Heyendaal-East distribution router. During this period the wired and wireless network will be unavailable for approx. 30 minutes. Also the Mitel phones will be out of order, only the green emergency phones will be functional.
Please think which processes depend on network connectivity and prepare for this outage if necessary.

New version Adobe Creative Cloud software for Windows and Mac

A new version of the Adobe Creative Cloud software for MS-Windows and Apple Mac is available on the Install network share. License codes for the period 2017-2020 have been built-in, therefore the software is available in password-protected zip-files. The passwords are available from C&CZ helpdesk or postmaster. According to the site license, this Adobe Creative Cloud for Enterprise (Specified Apps Only Non-Video) may be installed on all computers owned by RU without additional costs. For home use of this software, staff and students can visit SurfSpot. The software consists of the following components: Acrobat DC 2017-2020-ML, Audition CC 2017 (Windows only), Bridge CC 2017, Dreamweaver CC 2017, Fireworks CS6 (Windows only), Flash Builder Premium (Windows only), Illustrator CC 2017, InCopy CC 2017, InDesign CC 2017, Media Encoder CC 2017, Muse CC 2017 (Windows only) and Photoshop CC 2017.

Euroglot 8.3C on Install network share

The most recent version (8.3C) of the Euroglot translation software, is available on the Install network share. License codes, valid until January 1 2019, can be requested from the helpdesk. Home use is not permitted with this license. For home use you can buy a private license relatively cheap at Surfspot.

Standard RU-FNWI PC orderable in BASS

In the webshop of Scholten Awater in BASS a "Standaard PC RU-FNWI" can be chosen. C&CZ tested this configuration with the network installation of Windows 7 and Ubuntu 16.04. It is a Dell OptiPlex 3050 SFF with an Intel Core i5 6500 (3.2GHz,QC) processor, 1X8GB memory, a 256GB SSD hard disc and a DVD Burner, with 3 years of ProSupport and Next Business Day warranty. This system, with an Intel 6th generation processor, has support for Windows 7.

Green telephones out of order for 15 minutes on November 22

The green emergency phones will be out of order on November 22 for 15 minutes between 11:30 and 12:00. During that time T38 (Fax over IP) licences will be installed on the calamity servers. All other phones will not be hindered by this maintenance, so can be used in this period.

New version of Mathematica (11.2.0)

A new version of Mathematica (11.2.0) has been installed on all C&CZ managed Linux systems, older versions can still be found in /vol/mathematica. The installation files for Windows, Linux and Apple Mac can be found on the Install-disk, also for older versions of Mathematica. Departments that take part in the license can request installation and license info from C&CZ.

Old continuous form paper picked up for free

At the entrance of C&CZ we have put a stack of boxes with continuous form paper, that can be picked up for free. Years ago that paper was used in the C&CZ managed matrix printers, that were always free of charge as well.

SURFdrive: now 250 GB per user

In SURF News we read that as of October 9, the storage space for users of SURFdrive has been expanded from 100 GB to 250 GB. SURFdrive is a Dropbox-like storage for work-related files, that should not have the security classification critical or sensitive. Data is stored within Dutch borders, the users remain the owners of their own data, and SURF itself provides no information to third parties, which makes SURFdrive more secure than Dropbox.

Network maintenance October 16

Monday morning October 16 at 05:00 am three network switches will be upgraded with new firmware. Connected devices (including ip-phones and wireless access points) at three locations will lose their network connectivity for about 20 minutes:

Printer Escher will be removed

The last remaining general C&CZ managed printer, the black/white printer Escher in the Library of Science will be shutdown and removed as of November 1.
This marks the end of the C&CZ budgetted print system. C&CZ printbudgets are then only used for the not directly accessible poster and 3D printers. Printing on general printers has been moved to Peage more than a year ago.

Matlab R2017b available

The latest version of Matlab, R2017b, is available for departments that have licenses. The software and license codes can be obtained through a mail to postmaster for those entitled to it. The software can also be found on the install-disc. All C&CZ-managed Linux machines will soon have this version installed, an older version (/opt/matlab-R2017a/bin/matlab) is still available temporarily. The C&CZ-managed Windows machines will not receive a new version during the semester to prevent problems with version dependencies in current lectures.

Old serial numbers Adobe Creative Cloud stop working

Through ISC license management we received the message from SURFmarket that the old serial numbers of the Adobe Creative Cloud software will stop working in mid-November. All software that has been installed with these serial numbers will stop working. The old serial numbers are connected to the contract that ended May 31, 2017, the new ones to the contract 2017-2020.

Maple new version: Maple2017

The latest version of Maple, Maple2017, can be found on the Install network share and has been installed on C&CZ managed Linux computers. License codes can be requested from C&CZ helpdesk or postmaster by departments that take part in the license.

MS Windows 10: newer versions on Install network share

Newer versions of Microsoft Windows, 10, are available on the Install network share. The license permits upgrade to these version on university computers. License codes can be requested from C&CZ helpdesk or postmaster. For privately owned computers you can order this software relatively cheap at Surfspot. The added versions are: 2016 LTSB, 1607 with Multilanguage Pack, 1703 and Features on Demand.

Network maintenance on September 19, 04:00 - 05:30

Tuesday morning September 19, there will be maintenance on RU network equipment. Between ca. 04:00-05:30 no network traffic will be possible at the Faculty of Science on the wired and wireless networks. The network connected IP phones will also be out of order. Please think which processes depend on network connectivity and prepare for this outage if necessary.

C&CZ 3D print service now 4 color

The four color extension for the Prusa i3 MK2 3D Printer, that we ordered long ago, has finally arrived. Therefore we now can print objects with 4 colors, or 3 colors and soluble support material. For more details, see the Printers page.